Tusks of the Exiled

Stripped of her name-tusks and cast into the volcanic badlands to die, ogre queen Skadda Veld has spent two years sharpening her hatred into something useful. When she ambushes a slaver caravan and discovers her own daughter among the captives—a girl raised to despise her mother's name—Skadda's quest for vengeance becomes something far more dangerous: a race against time. The warlord who stole her throne now seeks to crown himself sacred overlord of every clan on the Windbone steppe, and Skadda has forty days, no army, and a daughter who won't look her in the eye.